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Silver Ferns LIVE from 9pmMunster ends speculation and confirms his NRL future
SEN • October 22nd, 2025 12:26 pm
Melbourne Storm will have to push captain Cam Munster “out in a wheelchair” if they want to get rid of him when his current deal expires.
Amid relentless speculation he could be bound for the Perth Bears as an inaugural marquee signing or tempted by the mammoth contracts being spoken about in R360, Munster has silenced all the noise by insisting he will honour his current contract.
Speaking from the UK where he is set for an Ashes series with the Kangaroos, Munster confirmed he was going nowhere just 24 hours after Jonah Pezet signed an extraordinary transfer deal that will see him play for the Eels for 12 months before joining the Broncos in 2027.
“I will honour my contract and the club doesn’t want to let me go,” Munster told News Corp.
"I love the club, I love ‘Bellyache’ (Craig Bellamy) and I love what the club is all about.
“I know you want to jab me with a metal prod, and get something out of me, but I’m still signed for two more years and I will fulfil my contract.
“There has been speculation (around me) for ages.
“If they don’t want me any longer than those two years, and they want to push me out in a wheelchair, then that’s what they will have to do.
“I have spoken to Melbourne and, even if there was an inkling of the door being ajar to leave, they don’t want me going. They don’t know where that (whisper) came from. It didn’t come from my management.”
Pezet’s move away from Melbourne was always going to have an impact on Munster’s future and any hopes he may or may not have harboured to get out of his contract 12 months early.
With his future essentially locked in until the end of the 2027 season, Munster revealed an enormous deal he had left on the table earlier in his career.
“I could have left for big money (in 2022) to go to the Dolphins,” he said.
“I’m not going to PNG with no tax. They could offer me the same amount of money that the Dolphins offered me. I didn’t take it then so I won’t take it now.
“Nothing changes so it’s business as usual.”
Munster also said that whatever the future holds, he only sees himself having to negotiate on one more deal before calling time.
“I will be 33 years old by the end of this contract and I am guessing after that, whether I re-sign or go somewhere else, that will be my last contract,” he continued.
“I have the reality of knowing that it will be my last deal playing professional rugby league, which is sad I guess in a way but that’s what happens the older you get.
“Hopefully I can play some good footy in the next couple of years.”
